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Making America radioactive again

Heather Digby Parton

Trump's order to resume nuclear weapons testing "immediately" should worry us all

Elon Musk and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Patrick T. Fallon/Thomas Krych/Anadolu/Tuomas A. Lehtinen)

Elon's dubious British bromance

Andrew O'Hehir

Elon Musk has convinced himself that English con man Tommy Robinson will save civilization. Honestly, it's sad

Zohran Mamdani (D), Curtis Sliwa (R) and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (I) participate in the second New York City mayoral debate on Oct. 22, 2025. (HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

NYC mayoral race approaches a nasty end

David Daley

Ranked choice voting worked in the Democratic primary. New Yorkers should take note

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Red states hit by Trump disability rules

Eli Hager - ProPublica

Particularly in states that voted for Trump, millions may find it harder to qualify for disability benefits

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Eilish calls out billionaires

CK Smith

Musician’s critique of billionaires meets Parton’s decades of philanthropy, proving fortune can uplift millions

The New York Times posted an eerily prophetic headline last year about Trump's second term. Online media picked it up and showed how accurate it's been. (Gabriel Ramos / Getty Images)

The NYT said it, then Trump proved it

CK Smith

Social media is abuzz as last year’s NYT warning of Trump's future deportations and disaster politics proves true

Blue states fight back via SNAP websites, matching Trump's administration's online finger-pointing with their own. (jetcityimage / Getty Images)

Blue states fight back against shutdown

CK Smith

Democratic states use SNAP websites to show human toll of Trump’s shutdown and push back against federal blame

A woman cries over her empty fridge (Leonardo Moreno/Getty Images)

Trump's SNAP shutoff is cruel by design

Andi Zeisler

Nationwide mutual-aid efforts and federal judges stepped up to address the crisis. They shouldn't have to

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The cast of "DOWNTON ABBEY: The Grand Finale," a Focus Features release (Rory Mulvey)

What's on the table at Downton Abbey?

Melanie McFarland

TV’s most lavish dinner table reminds us why dressing up for dinner — and making the duck — is worth the trouble

Local community food banks saw long lines of people needing assistance this week as SNAP benefits might be cut this month. While these Floridians got food, some politicians got dramatic. (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Court feeds people, GOP feeds on drama

CK Smith

Judges stepped in to keep Americans fed. GOP prioritizes tantrums, shutdowns and tee times over feeding families.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon,  June 26, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump regime just looks fascist

Mike Lofgren

Mark Lilla claims MAGA isn't even conservative, let alone fascist. This kind of cowardice won't age well

A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

Chauncey DeVega

The media must focus on the real story — how Washington’s gridlock is hurting ordinary Americans

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US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

New Kissinger doc gilds the stinkweed

Ken Hughes

I've spent 25 years studying presidents' White House tapes. This isn't Kissinger's real "American Experience"

House Speaker Mike Johnson shakes hands with President Donald Trump. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Johnson pushes House into irrelevance

Charlie Hunt - The Conversation

The House has all but abdicated its position as “The People’s Chamber”

Cá Chiên Nước Mắm and crab fried rice at La Dong (Jodyann Morgan )

A week of worth-it bites in NYC

Chaya Milchtein

From khachapuri to cosmic brownies, a weeklong tasting tour through some of New York’s best dishes

Ghost in a corn field (Massonstock/Getty Images)

I smell dead people

Kelly McClure

You may believe that ghosts don't exist because you've never seen one, but eyes aren't the only indicators

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"No justification" for drug boat strikes

Troy Farah

Rep. Sara Jacobs also said these are "extrajudicial killings where we have no evidence"

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in "Bugonia" (Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features)

"Bugonia" makes listening a radical act

Coleman Spilde

In Yorgos Lanthimos' latest, Emma Stone is not an alien intent on destroying Earth — if only anyone would listen

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the annual Halloween at the White House event on Oct. 30, 2025. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The horror of Donald Trump's America

Brian Karem

With SNAP benefits set to lapse, it's all tricks and no treats from Trump and MAGA

A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

MAGA salivates at cutting food stamps

Sophia Tesfaye

SNAP benefits are set to lapse — and the right is spreading tired, racist tropes about recipients

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts betrayed America for Trump

Chauncey DeVega

Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history

The great seal of North Carolina is seen outside the state legislature building in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday, May 9, 2016. (Photo By Al Drago/CQ Roll Call)

God's chief court justice

Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica

Paul Newby has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing an executive order creating a White House task force to help coordinate logistical issues related to the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump lowers refugee cap to 7500

Alex Galbraith

The admissions will focus on white South Africans

Prince Andrew (Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Prince Andrew stripped of royal title

Alex Galbraith

Andrew’s alleged association with Jeffrey Epstein led to the remarkable move from King Charles.

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